Atheist Quotes

Thank God I'm an atheist. (Luis Buñuel)
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. View quote
Woody Allen
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. View quote
Henny Youngman
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe? View quote
Quentin Crisp
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. View quote
George Orwell
By night an atheist half believes in a God. View quote
Edward Young
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. View quote
Eric Hoffer
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. (Thomas Paine)
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist. View quote
Robert Browning
I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support. View quote
John Buchan
I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. View quote
Scott Adams
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. View quote
Terry Pratchett
You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. View quote
Studs Terkel
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks. (Emir Kusturica)
I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with. View quote
Lisa Williams
Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. View quote
Cliff Stearns
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. View quote
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist & an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God. View quote
Charles Darwin